Susan Gerbic, founder of the Guerilla Skeptics on Wikipedia Project, contacted CSI to provide pictures and other information for an update to the Wikipedia article about Skeptical Inquirer. Several of us were involved in making content available for this endeavor, and Kendrick Frazier, the magazine’s editor, created a bibliography of important articles concerning the origin of CSICOP and Skeptical Inquirer.
The biggest concern we had was the fact that very little of the material was easily available, if it was available at all. As part of my role as librarian and archivist for the Center for Inquiry, we decided I should try to find these items and get them together in one place, either in links or by creating electronic copies for preservation purposes.
Below is Ken’s bibliography as written. Links to the text of the original articles and PDFs of the original articles can be found at http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/notable_articles_about_the_creation_of_CSICOP_and_skeptical_inquirer. These items now reside on our server in an effort to preserve the early history of CSICOP. The items were scanned from the originals, and text was created from the scans using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software and then manually corrected as needed. I hope we can continue to preserve the history of our organization in this manner and provide our members with more and more of this type of information in the future.